and How to disregard my feelings from her if i dont want a relationship? (Romanticism is strong) In my experience, if you have feelings for her, its gonna hurt no matter what you do, so you might as well go for it and have some fun and maybe some happiness as well. Keeping in mind the precepts as b...

and How to disregard my feelings from her if i dont want a relationship? (Romanticism is strong) In my experience, if you have feelings for her, its gonna hurt no matter what you do, so you might as well go for it and have some fun and maybe some happiness as well. Keeping in mind the precepts as b...

The oak tree arises from the same causal nexus as the tornado, whether or not it takes the tornado personally is moot. Notions like personal, public (and i am actually unclear on what you meant by that and dont really care to know) and impersonal imo just interfere with the practice of the path, tho...

I emailed my teacher that gave me the "abide with mind" practice. His take on it was that it could have been a number of things and that "whether it was important or unimportant, is secondary to your sincere continuation of the practice you're currently doing." I gotta say i just love this guy :) G...

I emailed my teacher that gave me the "abide with mind" practice. His take on it was that it could have been a number of things and that "whether it was important or unimportant, is secondary to your sincere continuation of the practice you're currently doing."

If you don't mind sharing, what Chan method do you practice? After doing a huatou (who is this?) for a while my last instructions were to "abide with mind" Awesome, I love huatou, but I don't have a teacher, so I can't say I really practice it (but I do in a way :embarassed: 8-) ) From what i have ...

I think some (whether this accurately reflects the insight tradition or not, I won't comment) consider this blanking out to be true cessation, which occurs at the moment of stream entry, or attainment of higher paths, and is tantamount to the experience of Nibbana, i.e. all conditioned phenomena st...

I don't think it has to do with the Buddhist "consciousness". Just about awareness. One must redefine consciousness. I was using the word in its most mundane sense ie: con·scious·ness ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs/ noun noun: consciousness the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings. "she failed to r...

Hello: The truth is that "blanking outs" are used to describe a very different number of experiences (you can have "blanking outs" because of drowsiness,lack of attention, some of the higher jhanas, attaining the cessation of perception and feeling, etc.) You should first hear the answer of someone...

I experienced a moment of blanking out of consciousness and seem to remember reading about this as a side effect of insight meditation (which i do not practice, i do a chan method). It was disconcerting, like being completly gone for a split second while wide awake and then blinking back into existe...

First off, friends, I apologize for not getting into the other discussions on this. Makes me so sick. I had to take some time off. Here is why I hate Trump, and why you should, too. 1) He refuses to recognize facts. 2) He is living in his own, separate reality, in which only he is great--all others...

Batchelors "Buddhism" has seemed to me to be an admixture of mostly materialism and sour grapes. Which is what many of us came to Buddhism seeking to remedy. Rather than seeking a way to see beyond the cage that his culture and education have built for him, he is trying to convince the rest of us o...